Flash Design & Development
Motion Media development and you
Flash Design and Immersive Media
Bringing Motion and Video to the Web
Flash is one of the most misunderstood elements of web design. Mostly, it is misused or wasted on out of date 'splash' pages, or Flash Intro's.
What you need to remember is that no content in a Flash element is indexed by the search engines. The largest mistake you could make, is to place Flash navigation, or a full Flash page on your web site's home page. If by chance the viewer does not have the latest version of Flash, they will not be able to browse through your web site, and if you have a Flash home page, you will lose search engine placement.
So what is it good for?!
Flash is a very powerful delivery system for motion text, dynamic elements and video. More importantly, it can be used as a very powerful marketing tool, both on the web, and on the road.
If your purpose is to market a product, it can save a fortune in printing costs. Instead of supplying your sales staff with print collateral (ie: brochures, marketing folders), you can create stunning, and interactive sales tools that can be manufactured for pennies. Offering the ability to combine your brochures, photographs, commercials, and other marketing mediums, in one small disc.
Don't get me wrong, Flash can also provide provocative web media as well. But unfortunately, many inexperienced web designers use Flash for an easy fix to an element that could produce the same results with the proper knowledge of Javascript technologies such as AJAX. As a result, you the customer reap the negative results in either lossed sales, or poor web site functionality.
Contact me today to discuss whether Flash is the correct solution for you and your business!